Re: [PHP-DB] Automated Processes From: Koos van den Hout (koos <email protected>)
Date: 11/20/00

Quoting Jamie Alessio who wrote on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:09:16AM -0800:

> > My question i guess is how to get the automated reminder process to happen.
> >
> Your best bet (if you're using *nix) is to set up a cron job that either runs a PHP or
> Perl script at a specified time. If you want to use a PHP script then you'll have to
> compile PHP as a CGI executable. Admittedly, I was a bit hesitant to do this for a while
> because I thought it would be a headache but it turned out to be extremely simply and it's
> great to be able to run PHP scripts from the command line and pipe data to it. The second
> option is to use Perl which is most likely already installed on your system but you'll
> probably have to install DBI to get it to talk to your database. The disadvantage to this
> is that you have to develop some things in Perl and some in PHP so I'd recommend trying
> out compiling PHP as a CGI executable.

How about making a php script that does 'the thing' (checking, mailing)
without generating output and then using the following:

lynx http://yourserver/the/special/script.php

>From cron. Best of both worlds :)

                                            Koos 

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